This old motorcycle:Restoring a Vintage Triumph speed twin.

KBW is in the process of restoring a 500cc 1956 Triumph Speed twin motorcycle. 

 The Speed Twin was one of Triumph's most sucessful motorcycles and also happened to be  one of the first parallel twin cylinder engines to be produced and sold in large numbers due to it's ground breaking OHV engine and compact design.

 The Speed Twin is the ancestor of  many great machines to be built by Triumph after World War II, notably the Thunderbirds and Bonneville twin cylinder machines.

The primary goal for this project is to have a very mechanically reliable machine hence restoration has begun with the engine.

  The  engine has been removed from the frame to facilitate a thorough rebuild.

 The engine is mostly untouched.  The Con rods, pistons,valves, cam followers and majority of other moving parts are orignal, installed  55 years ago by the Triumph Meriden factory.

We have replaced these with fresh parts as they were badly worn. All parts were imported from Tri-supply and SRM Engineering in England to ensure this beauty purrs like a kitten once we fire her up.

Some of the parts replaced are:-

1. piston kit (8.1 compression)
2. valves and guides
3. valve springs/cotters
4. cam followers
5. con rod set(later model shell bearing type) 
6. All 4 timing pinnion(wider type)
7. Morgo plunger oil pump
8. SRM engineering Pressure release valve
9. All gaskets and seals
10. engine bearings
11. engine fastners

The motoroids magazine review.

India's First online Automotive magazine recently reviewed our Project Land Speed record attempt motorcycle "monster Dog" for their April issue.

 See what they had to say!

 www.motoroids.com

Thunderbird Twinspark engine sump guard.

Planning a ride to ladakh? Do you ride Offroad? 

Consider this as added insurance.

The new generation Royal enfield Unit Constrcuction Engine used on both the Thunderbird twin spark and Classic models Can benefit from these sump guards.

We have found the UCE engine casing to be quite thin on the underside  and especially around the bottom oval drain plug.Any damage to the casing can at best cause the casing to distort and drip oil, at worse the casing can crack.

These sump guards will protect your Engine casing from hard impact or flying stones when riding in off road situations.

We have fabricated a batch  from 2mm steel plate  and powdercoated them matt black, these sump guards do not need to be removed to access the bottom oil strainer and to drain oil during regular service.

We will supply them with all mounting hardware. They can be insatlled in under 10 minutes and require no drilling or modifiaction to fit.

Call us at 09881341144 for more details, we can ship them anywhere in India.

KBW is ready for the Classic 350 and 500 EFI motorcycle.
November 29 2009

Having successfully completed the Royal Enfield refresher training for the new classic 350 and 500 Electronic fuel injected motorcycle, KBW is now ready to take on the new Royal Enfield classic.
We must say that this in our oppinion is a big step ahead for the Marque, where Royal Enfield have successfully combined the old with the new to give the Indian biker what he wants in terms of performance,reliability and awesome looks.
We give it a a two thumbs up!

Autocar India: Monster Dog project
November 23 2009

The Monster Dog project was recently covered by Kartikeya Singhee from  the Autocar India Show.
So the cat or rather "monster Dog" is out of the bag!
Check out the show at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iiNrNEqDhI&feature=channel
Blasco's royal enfield blog http://www.royalenfields.com/

500cc to 612cc engine Build.
November 19 2009

Phase one of the Falcon racing project has been completed with the successful conversion of a stock STD kick start 500cc to a 612cc engine with electric starter.  The testing of the engine was carried out on the donor bike today on the pune-ahmednagar highway with excellent results. We ran the engine at a moderate rpm initially as it is in the break in period, with a few quick bursts which took us to 130kmh.
We will now proceed to fit and tune the engine with mandatory restrictor in the inlet runner as specified in the FSG rule book.
Phase two will be comprise of incorporating the engine onto the falcon racing team FSG car and testing it on the track. 

Monster dog
November 19 2009

 "Monster Dog" our in-house project drag bike has just been repainted in bright red after 4 years.  Monster dog really looks the part now and we really hope it lives up to that look!  Other aspects like the supercharger were put on the back burner for the past few months as we were busy with customer commitments and the Falcon racing project. We hope to have the bike running with the blower by the end of December. www.motocamp.blogspot.com